#greatest of women

[faithful-diaries]

"Khadijah رضي الله عنها,

I do yearn to be like you,

In words and actions

And character too."

[yurisorcerer]

[dieinct]

i was just talking about this after being wrecked by the discovery that the little elf-goblin fellows my parents/family used to tell me warnings and stories about as a little kid are regionally specific, and that you can trace people's geographic origins by what word they use for "little spirit-fellows who live in your house". no matter what you call them (domovoi, kobolde, brownies, so on); for purposes of this post henceforth "little guys"

i think one of the things that i find frustrating about like, idk, modern animist revivalist movements is that very few of them ime spend a lot of time romanticising and spiritualizing human habitation. obviously, we as a culture need to think more about protecting and defending nature/the earth/so on, but like.

if you don't have room in your heart for making up a little guy who lives in the water heater, or who squats under your stove and makes it run 15 degrees off the programmed temperature, and thinking of him with the same kind of respect/affection as you do for the spirits (or whatever) of the wildlife you interact with like.

genuinely: what are you even doing. you are removing a source of richness and fun and whimsy from your life! like, pip @creekfiend made up the concept of "little guys who live in an airport (and are the reason it's so shitty to be in an airport)" and i already like airports like 30% more just knowing it's the little airport inconvenience guys doing that.

more importantly, like. genuinely: interrogate what parts of the world seem ~rich with spiritual meaning~ to you. what parts of the world are "wild"? what does that make the rest of the world - a chore? a burden? who has to carry that burden?

we're never going to like, "return to nature", because that's nothing and the concept of untouched nature is also nothing; we're always going to have some sort of human habitation and interaction and cultivation with nature. if you can't extend grace and whimsy and genuine and sincere meaning to human habitation, including its inconveniences and annoyances, you are making your own lived experience duller!

notably, most of these kinds of little-guy-spirits historically exist in the parts of human habitation that are partially abandoned, partially removed: haylofts, inside the walls, under the house, in the bathhouse, behind the furnace... i've been thinking a lot about urban wildlife lately, and the animals who make space for themselves in and around human habitation. the "natural" and the "wild" persist inside and around the edges of the "tame" and always, always have. if you have a crawlspace, there's a little spirit who lives there and he's the reason the dryer always eats your socks.

LIVE WHIMSICALLY.

[artificial-ascension]

Being transmasc means you will hear people say shit to you with their whole chest that, if they said to a cis woman, would get them on a block list of raging misogynists instantly also you are also on that block list for bringing this up.

[upthewitchypunx]

The amount of cis dudes losing their shit over the thought of Kamala choosing Mark Kelly as her running mate because "HE"S AN ASTRONAUT!!!" is fucking hilarious to me, but also telling and probably means he will get picked.

[destinyandcoins]

At this point, why does anyone else bother competing in women's swim events. Just give Katie Ledecky all three medals and everyone else can save on air fare

[shesnake]

I'm Ria Khan. I am going to be a stuntwoman. My sister Lena is the only person who believes in me, but lately she's been seeing this guy who I think is a bit of a smarmy wanker. Now, I'm not being dramatic, but these people are evil.

Polite Society (2023) dir. Nida Manzoor

[archerinventive]

Happy Warrior Wednesday!!

Today I want to celebrate all my armored ladies, no matter how much, or how little armor you wear. You're incredible and I love you all. ❤️

Keep being awesome!

Photo with miss_witchhh on IG.

[sanriodoll97]

Girls that pray can be princesses too 🎀🤌🏻

[jeannemoreau]

• Favorite female performances [20/?] “My love. I just want you to know that I'm not that monster, you know. Everything you hear in the trial it's just.. it's twisted. It wasn't like that.” SANDRA HÜLLER as Sandra Voyter in — ANATOMY OF A FALL (2023) dir. Justine Triet

[vulpesarctica]

A late-entry 2022 update for Sith Obi-Wan! Recklessly provoked by @silmairon who sent me kind words about my art progress on the 2020 version. 💕

[protosymphonette]

the first time vulpes gets on the strip he's so pleased with himself because months of meticulous planning had gone into slipping into both freeside and vegas proper under the radar of house and the ncr and he crosses the strip's gates and turns his head to the right and immediately takes 2000 psychic damage and passes out cold because he just saw boobs for the first time, courtesy of a gomorrah hooker

[lloydfrontera]

what would alicia do if javier turned up at the tournament in a dress and a wig actually?

like. she would recognize him for sure so. does she confront him?? does she out him in front of everyone??? does she take him aside to ask him what the fuck he's doing?? i mean the answer is pretty clear, she made the rules herself, lloyd's the prize and if javier is there to participate he's also there to win but like. what the fuck nonetheless.

or does she just. let him in. does she even try at that point. because if javier's participating it's no longer a matter of whether he's gonna win, its about how badly she's gonna lose.

what do you even do if you organize a competition you're sure to win to marry a guy and then at the last moment his best friend, the only person in the world who can defeat you, turns up and signs in to participate. what's the royal protocol there.

[queenlucythevaliant]

Just to clarify my thoughts (since I've had a number of people ask me about it) re: Job and cursing God. There's a big difference between cursing God as used in Scripture and how we generally would think of cursing at God today.

Cursing someone, in the Bible, has a lot of depth to it. It's not just saying "screw you " in anger, it's got a sense of forsakenness to it. It's the opposite of a blessing, a removal of blessing. If the blessing is presence, your face shining on the person you're blessing, then a curse is absence. In some translations, Job's wife tells him to "renounce God and die," which I honestly think makes a lot more sense to modern ears.

Job says a lot of unpleasant things to and about God in his anger and grief. So do the Psalmists. A number of the Prophets. So can we. God can take it if we come to him with honest expressions of our emotion, including those not-so-nice ones directed at him. I don't think there's anything wrong with getting mad at God and saying, "How dare you, you bastard" when you suffer unjustly. You can say much worse, I think, without sinning, though I don't feel particularly inclined to give examples. But as long as it's an honest expression of your heart, I think you're doing exactly what prayer is for. You're presenting him your heart with an open hand. He can use that. Opposite of love is not hate but indifference, etc.

Job doesn't renounce God. Neither should we. But I think when you're truly suffering, you're gonna have those feelings toward God either way. He'd rather you address them with him directly than try to avoid them. Cursing at God in the modern sense is actually a great way to keep the relationship strong and not end up cursing/renouncing him in the Biblical sense.

[blkmagicwoahman]

Simone Biles Makes History Again

The first Woman to win two Olympic All-Around Titles since Vera Caslavska in 1964 and 1968!🥇🇺🇸

The first woman to win two titles non-consecutively 🥇

The third gymnast to win multiple golds in the individual All-Around 🥇

Simone Biles secures her 6th Olympic gold medal. More than any American gymnast, male or female, in history. 🥇🇺🇸

[thecooler]

(sees a heavily traumatized, lobotomized, 18 year old with schizophrenia desperately trying to rewrite her own memories) cringe. Now imagine this: what if I was there and I had 7467447 guns and I blew everyone's face off. With my guns.